Re: [PATCH] unify PFN_* macros

From: Ralf Baechle
Date: Mon Apr 03 2006 - 08:50:16 EST


On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:24:59AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:

> Just about every architecture defines some macros to do operations on
> pfns. They're all virtually identical. This patch consolidates all
> of them.
>
> One minor glitch is that at least i386 uses them in a very skeletal
> header file. To keep away from #include dependency hell, I stuck
> the new definitions in a new, isolated header.
>
> Of all of the implementations, sh64 is the only one that varied by a
> bit. It used some masks to ensure that any sign-extension got
> ripped away before the arithmetic is done. This has been posted to
> that sh64 maintainers and the development list.
>
> Compiles on x86, x86_64, ia64 and ppc64.

Ehhh... Looks at this patch I wonder if you actually read the MIPS bits
before submitting it:

o replaces PFN_ALIGN with PAGE_ALIGN
o replaces the IP27 definition of PFN_ALIGN with a different one.

How about posting such stuff to linux-arch? No sane person follows l-k.

Ralf
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